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Kelyon Font - Image 2

Kelyon  Font

Kelyon is a sophisticated and modern serif, inspired by the late Middle Ages and early renaissance period. Kelyon was designed with a very thin hairline and long serifs, this reflects the charm and feel of the 14th century. With  over

Blackminster Font - Image 3

Blackminster  Font

Blackminster is a Gothic font, inspired by a handwritten set of letters (designed by Harry Lawrence Gage) I found in a 1916 book about lettering. I only had the ABC/abc to work with, so I designed the remaining glyphs myself.

Carpe Noctem Font - Image 6

Carpe Noctem  Font

Carpe Noctem (Latin for ‘Seize The Night’), was a bit of a surprise. Someone asked me if I could create a lower case for my Closet Skeleton font. I began working on it and lo and behold, a beautiful  font

Shadowfield Font - Image 7

Shadowfield  Font

Shadowfield is a fantasy font which was inspired by the hand lettering on the Spiderwick movie posters (which itself was apparently based on Hand Skript One). Every glyph was drawn by hand, using a gel pen on 160 grams  paper.

Carta Magna Font - Image 8

Carta Magna  Font

Carta Magna is a blackletter font design published by deFharo Published by deFharoDownload Carta  Magna

Bronwen Font - Image 9

Bronwen  Font

In Welsh mythology, Bronwen was the daughter of Llyr, the god of the sea. It is a popular girls name in Wales and it apparently means ‘white breast’ or ‘pure heart’. I really like this name and I think  it

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Gryffith CF  Font

Gryffith is a display typeface blending a wide range of influences from medieval calligraphy to art deco lettering to high technology. Strange, captivating, and elegant, Gryffith is especially useful for logos, headlines, posters, and artwork. The typeface is based  on

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Cherubina  Font

Cherubina means ‘Blessed’. It is a name derived from the Akkadian “karabu / kuribu”, meaning “blessing, blessed”. A cherub is a type of spiritual being mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, often depicted as a baby with wings. This font  was

Flipflop Font - Image 15

Flipflop  Font

This font makes the impression to be a blackletter font (Fraktur) but it really only is little squares and triangles stuck together in a flip or flop way to form the glyphs. Only a few times did I have  to

Chalice Font - Image 16

Chalice  Font

Chalice is a new original Canada Type family inspired by two different engraving eras and locations: Medieval England and 19th century Russia. Chalice’s construct is geometric at heart, though the wedge serifs and their contribution to the overall idiosyncrasies  of

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Cruller  Font

Cruller is a display typeface that is based on a rare bit of lettering from a 1910 German lettering book. What was the inspiration for designing the font? I found the base lettering years ago in a specimen and scanned